Buried Stuff

Sharon Sloan Fiffer. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-312-31416-3

Garage-sale addicts will welcome Buried Stuff: A Jane Wheel Mystery, Sharon Fiffer's charming fourth outing to feature the savvy antique collector and part-time sleuth. Some bones found on a farm in Jane's hometown of Kankakee, Ill., lead Jane and her geology professor husband into unearthing more secrets than there are bones at the excavation site, including some about her own mother. Agent, Gail Hochman. .

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